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Egyptian plover
Kaur Wetlands, the Gambia
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Charadriiformes
Family:
Pluvianidae MacGillivray, 1852
Genus:
Pluvianus Vieillot, 1816
Species:
P. aegyptius
Binomial name
Pluvianus aegyptius
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Charadrius aegyptiusLinnaeus, 1758
A characteristic pair of Egyptian plovers (Pluvianus aegyptius) feeding on the shoreline, The Gambia, November 2021
The Egyptian plover (Pluvianus aegyptius), also known as the crocodile bird, is a wader, the only member of the genus Pluvianus. Formerly placed in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae, it is now regarded as the sole member of its own monotypic family Pluvianidae.
The species is one of several plovers doubtfully associated with the "trochilus" bird mentioned in a supposed cleaning symbiosis with the Nile crocodile.
^BirdLife International (2016). "Pluvianus aegyptius". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22694086A93437931. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22694086A93437931.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
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